Watch
this video and we'll say "hi" and show you how to
use this tutorial. It's not done yet but you can give it a
shot anyway (things keep changing so it may never get finished).
Or you can skip the video and do it your own way. Either way,
if you run into problems, send us an
email.

Step 0.5:
Before You Start, Make A Video And Load It On To Your Computer!

Disclaimer:
This tutorial assumes you have access to a computer, a camera and that you can
make a video. That part of the whole videoblogging chain isn't free (we wish!).
Depending on what kind of stuff you have, there
are a zillion ways that whole process can go. Maybe after we get some sleep
we'll think about doing some of those tutorials.

Remember, without a video, step 2 where we make a
screen shot of your video and step 4 where we publish your video
are not going to make much sense.

Now a lot of Windows users email us asking
how they can create QuickTime movies with Windows Movie Maker.
What are you crazy? Do you think Microsoft would let you do that?
(To be fair you can't make a .wmv with iMovie.) So here's a tip.
If you have the free
QuickTime player for Windows installed on your system
you can use Avid
Free DV ($0) to edit
and compress Quicktime movies. Plus you get some editing software
with more features than Movie Maker. Don't worry Mac users. Avid
didn't forget you. Avid
Free DV is also available for Mac. Tutorial
coming soon(ish).

Next you want to take a little picture of your
video when it's displayed in you video player so people who are
looking at your blog will know right away that there is video
on the blog! "Hey Martha, take a look at this! There's some
of that there video on this blog! I can tell because there's
a picture of a little TV on here!"

Why
is this cool?---> It's a geeky computer trick in another
language.

Let's do it one more time for all of the PC
users in the room! How's this for a trick? No PCs we're used
in the making of this video. Also, no PC users were
used so if the info is wrong, that would be the cause.

Why
is this cool?---> Free media
hosting; Huge community for trading original media. Did I
mention that people usually pay for this hosting stuff?

Your Blogger blog doesn't actually store and
host your media. You could pay for storage from a hosting
company (roughly $80US a year, more if you get a lot of hits
and use a bunch of bandwidth, which you will if you're
hosting videos), but this is all about doing it for free. The
partnership between The Internet Archive and OurMedia makes it
easy as pie to upload and host your media for free, forever.
How cool is that?

Internet
Archive
The Internet Archive is a public nonprofit that was founded to build an "Internet
library," with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Also uploading video from the Ourmedia website
works for files up to 20MB (We know it says 10MB but we generally
have success with larger files). So what do you do if your video
comes out bigger than 20MB? Well, If you're using our compression
settings this should give you about 4 - 5 minutes to tell your
story. If you can't get it done in that amount of time, we suggest
you quit your rambling and make that video shorter. Really. Shorter
is almost always better. If you really must go on and on and
on - then lower that bit-rate. This will also lower the quality
of your video but by this time only your Mom will be watching
you so it won't be too much of a problem.

Why is this cool?---> People can subscribe and download
your videos automatically.

This is the trickiest part (and the longest video) but it's
so worth it. Just set this up one time and people can automatically
find out about your new stuff. This is much better than spaming
all of your friends every time you make a new post!

Don't forget to subscribe to all of your favorite
videoblogs with ANT and Mefeedia.

Don't forget to take the
videobloggers' oath:
I _________
do solemnly promise to post video regularly. I promise to post
video even if I don't really have time to or even if I really
need to get some sleep. Also, I promise to teach others to videoblog
or at the very least, point them over here when they get inspired
from watching my videos.

Step
8:
Link Love

Why is this cool?---> You'll be sporting this hot little badge in your sidebar
and helping us out at the same time.

See this is how the Internet works - if you like something you
link to it. The more people link to something, the higher
it shows up in search engines like Google. So if you link to
us you'll be helping us get the word out. Plus it'll only take
you like 5 freakin' seconds so what's to lose?